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The Sensex, which recovered its previous losses after a sharp setback, dropped into the red zone again owing to lack of support at senior levels.

At 11.25 a.m., the Sensex was down with a huge loss of 71.75 points at 17,775.29. The Nifty was also down by about a point at 5209.90.

The well-known high-tech company Microsoft presented its brand-new generation door-to-door media player the new Zune 2. It has bleak big 3.2 8 inch display and slim body. Moreover, the new flash based Zune with 4 GB and 8 GB model which has smaller size and smaller screen; both can be found in lots of colours such as pink, glossy red, green, and black.

Mumbai, Oct 4 : Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will arrive here on a three-day visit today.

Arroyo's visit is the first to India by a Philippines President in over ten years. The last was by the then President, Fidel Ramos, in March 1997.

During her visit to New Delhi, Arroyo will call on President Pratibha Patil, who will host a banquet in her honour on Friday.

On the same day, Arroyo, accompanied by seven cabinet ministers, will also call on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to hold bilateral talks.

London, Oct 4 : A Burmese army major has revealed that secret codes were issued ordering the military to shoot and kill protesting monks in Rangoon last week.

Major Hla Lin, who disobeyed the order and fled before protests began in the capital, claimed there were divisions within the military, and many officers were horrified at being forced to crush the protesting monks.

London, Oct 4 : The ongoing inquest into Princess Diana’s death has further dismissed controversial claims about her being pregnant with boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed’s child at the time of her death, by revealing that she was on contraceptive pills.

Lord Justice Scott Baker said that while it may never be possible to prove “100 per cent” whether Diana was pregnant, the inquest jury would hear “intimate details of her personal life” which appeared to show she was not.

Washington, Oct 4 : Consuming flavonol-rich foods like apples and onions reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer, a new study conducted by a group of international researchers has revealed.

Previously, the most consistent inverse association was found between flavonols, especially quercetin in apples and lung cancer.

While found in many plants, flavonols are found in high concentrations in apples, onions, tea, berries, kale, and broccoli. Quercetin is most plentiful in apples and onions.